Missions to asteroids have been on a tear recently. Visits by Rosetta, Osirix-REX, and Hayabusa2 have…
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What Could We Build With Lunar Regolith?
It has often been likened to talcum powder. The ultra fine lunar surface material known as…
Total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 – Best chances for clear viewing
A total solar eclipse dubbed the Great North American Eclipse will occur on Monday, April 8,…
The World’s Largest Digital Camera is Complete. It Will Go Into the Vera Rubin Observatory
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), was formally proposed in…
Roman Will Learn the Ages of Hundreds of Thousands of Stars
Astronomers routinely provide the ages of the stars they study. But the methods of measuring ages…
The First Atmospheric Rainbow on an Exoplanet?
When light strikes the atmosphere all sorts of interesting things can happen. Water vapor can split…
Webb Sees a Galaxy Awash in Star Formation
Since it began operations in July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has fulfilled many…
The Stellar Demolition Derby in the Centre of the Galaxy
The region near the Milky Way’s centre is dominated by the supermassive black hole that resides…
Why is it so hard to drill off Earth?
Humans have been digging underground for millennia – on the Earth. It’s where we extract some…
A New Map Shows the Universe’s Dark Energy May Be Evolving
At the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, an instrument with 5,000 tiny robotic eyes scans…